Hasnain says:

Today I learnt CA does this very differently from other states. I’m annoyed they left CA out of the dataset but it makes sense since the inequality here is quite different; though equally bad (damn you prop 13!)

““This is an example of structural racism,” Berry said. “African Americans and other minorities are more likely to own low-priced homes. This means that minorities are more likely to be overtaxed because they are more likely to own low-priced homes.””

Hasnain says:

Interesting historical take. It’s not 100% clear how they went from that data to this conclusion though.

“Serving richly spiced stews was no longer a status symbol for Europe's wealthiest families — even the middle classes could afford to spice up their grub. "So the elite recoiled from the increasing popularity of spices," Ray says. "They moved on to an aesthetic theory of taste. Rather than infusing food with spice, they said things should taste like themselves. Meat should taste like meat, and anything you add only serves to intensify the existing flavors."”

Hasnain says:

6.3 PeV packed into one small antineutrino is amazing

“Sheldon Glashow first proposed this resonance in 1960 when he was a postdoctoral researcher at what is today the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark. There, he wrote a paper in which he predicted that an antineutrino (a neutrino’s antimatter twin) could interact with an electron to produce an as-yet undiscovered particle—if the antineutrino had just the right energy—through a process known as resonance.”

Hasnain says:

Very long and interesting read; mix of a human interest story, tech company origin stories, and the issues behind ethical AI and misinformation.

“Near the end of our hour-long interview, he began to emphasize that AI was often unfairly painted as “the culprit.” Regardless of whether Facebook used AI or not, he said, people would still spew lies and hate speech, and that content would still spread across the platform.

I pressed him one more time. Certainly he couldn’t believe that algorithms had done absolutely nothing to change the nature of these issues, I said.

“I don’t know,” he said with a halting stutter. Then he repeated, with more conviction: “That’s my honest answer. Honest to God. I don’t know.””

Hasnain says:

This was a pretty good read on how tailscale designed a new type to represent IPs in Go and various trade offs considered.

This was quite well written - it’s hard to write things that are both technically accurate and engaging at the same time, and this did both.

“Being written almost entirely in Go, the obvious choice would be for Tailscale to use the Go standard library’s net.IP address type for individual IPs and net.IPNet type for networks. Unfortunately, the standard library’s types have a number of problems, so we wrote a new package, inet.af/netaddr (github) containing a new IP type and more.”

Hasnain says:

:| this study says 96% of women polled in the age range 18-24 had experienced some form of sexual harassment at work.

“Bates pointed to TUC/Everyday Sexism research that found 52% of women had experienced sexual harassment at work, and of the one in five who had reported it, three-quarters said nothing had changed, while 16% said they were treated worse as a result.”

Hasnain says:

Ouch.

“In a video seen by Bloomberg, a Verkada camera inside Florida hospital Halifax Health showed what appeared to be eight hospital staffers tackling a man and pinning him to a bed. Halifax Health is featured on Verkada’s public-facing website in a case study entitled: “How a Florida Healthcare Provider Easily Updated and Deployed a Scalable HIPAA Compliant Security System.””

Hasnain says:

This was an interesting little anecdote. I’m also surprised the SEC went after so many companies for an issue like this. Trying to leave a quote without spoilers:

“In retrospect, the only thing that kept me out of jail was some good luck and an outstanding General Counsel, and the right organizational design.”

Hasnain says:

If only more engineers were this ethical.

“The focus of the commission's investigation shifted to the booster rocket O-rings, the efforts of McDonald and his colleagues to stop the launch, and the failure of NASA officials to listen.

Morton Thiokol executives were not happy that McDonald spoke up and demoted him.”

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“Workplace diversity and inclusion experts say it is common for human resource officials to use mental health and well-being as a tactic to ignore discrimination — and even participate in it.

“The broader pattern of HR not being supportive, continuing to make the person who was discriminated against the problem in some way rather than the discrimination and the perpetrator of the discrimination as the problem — those are patterns that we have seen in our research,””